Akzo N. V. v. United States International Trade Commission

How later courts describe this case

• relying on South to reject the claim that the trial court erred in refusing to allow the defendant to use hypothetical question on voire dire in an attempt to discover hidden biases or prejudices concerning the death penalty
• “Obviously, where confidential material is disclosed to an employee of a competitor, the risk of the competitor’s obtaining an unfair business advantage may be substantially increased.”
• “Disclosure of sensitive materials to a [business] adversary would undoubtedly have a chilling effect on the parties’ willingness to provide the confidential information essential to the [agency’s] fact-finding processes.”
• adopting the PTO’s standard of materiality as the “major standard”